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Decommissioning the twentieth century
Ben Anderson, Matthew Kelly, Katrina Navickas, Ian Waites Ben Anderson, Matthew Kelly, Katrina Navickas, Ian Waites
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On the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Mike
Makin-Waite surveys the history of the communist movement, tracking
its origins in the Enlightenment, and through nineteenth-century
socialism to the emergence of Marxism and beyond. As we emerge from
the long winter of neoliberalism, and the search is on for ideas
that can help shape a contemporary popular socialism, some of the
questions that have preoccupied socialist thinkers throughout left
history are once more being debated. Should the left press for
reform and work through the state or should it focus on protest and
a critique of the whole system? Is it possible to expand the
liberal idea of democracy to include economic democracy? Which
alliances require too great a compromise and which can help secure
future change? Arguments on questions such as these have been
raging since the mid-nineteenth century, and were the basis of the
split between Social Democrats and Communists in the aftermath of
the First World War. Mike Makin-Waite believes that revisiting
these debates can help us to avoid some of the mistakes made in the
past, and find new solutions to some of these age-old concerns. His
argument is that the democratic and liberal counter-currents that
have always existed within the communist movement have much to
offer the left project today. This unorthodox account therefore
tracks an alternative history that includes nineteenth-century
revisionists such as Karl Kautsky, Menshevik opponents of Bolshevik
oppression in 1917, Popular Front critiques of sectarianism in the
1930s, communist support for 1968's Prague Spring, and the turn to
Gramsci and Eurocommunism in the 1970s. The aim of Communism and
Democracy: history, debates and potentials is to recover some of
the hard-won insights of the critical communist tradition, in the
belief that they can still be of service to the
twenty-first-century left.
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